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Ninety Percent of the Questions Are About Squirrels

Ninety Percent of the Questions Are About Squirrels

Forty-three years behind the counter at Bird Watcher's General Store — a shop that opens at 9:17, and the man who hired himself when nobody else would.

Arthur Radtke
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The Clock Is Lying to You. Two Bells Means Nine O'Clock.

The Clock Is Lying to You. Two Bells Means Nine O'Clock.

Wellfleet's town clock keeps ship's time — and the man who built the mechanism by hand later asked them to tear it out.

Arthur Radtke
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They Floated Their Houses Across the Harbor. Some Are Still Wearing the Badge.

They Floated Their Houses Across the Harbor. Some Are Still Wearing the Badge.

A village of two hundred people packed up Long Point and rowed home — and a ten-minute walk in the West End will show you where the houses landed.

Arthur Radtke
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They Hatch, and Then They Run the Wrong Way

They Hatch, and Then They Run the Wrong Way

Terrapin hatchlings turn their backs on the marsh — and the year the clutches got smaller was the best news Wellfleet's volunteers had seen.

Arthur Radtke
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Every Day of the Year, He Sat Down at 5:15

Every Day of the Year, He Sat Down at 5:15

Napi's began as a Wednesday night dinner party, got built out of tin garages, stayed open through forty-nine Provincetown winters — and then ended somewhere nobody expected.

Arthur Radtke
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Forty-Eight Years of Carnival Themes

Forty-Eight Years of Carnival Themes

From a one-night party in 1978 to a disco under the sea this afternoon — including the eleven straight years Provincetown didn't bother naming one at all.

Arthur Radtke
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Thirty-five years ago this week, Hurricane Bob came up Buzzards Bay and took the summer with it. We're collecting your stories — and running them next Thursday, with your name on them.

Arthur Radtke
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There's a Federal No-Go Zone in Cape Cod Bay, and Almost Nobody Out Here Knows It

There's a Federal No-Go Zone in Cape Cod Bay, and Almost Nobody Out Here Knows It

A bomb squad blew something up in Orleans on Tuesday. The reason it was sitting on the beach involves a Liberty ship they shot at for years, an artillery range along the Wellfleet cliffs, and a thousand-yard circle of water you are still not legally allowed to enter.

Arthur Radtke
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A Ton of Onion Rings a Week

A Ton of Onion Rings a Week

Arnold's is in its fiftieth season. The line out the door is not the problem — it's the whole business model. And there are maybe three weeks left to stand in it.

Arthur Radtke
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Santa Comes In by Coast Guard Boat. Hallmark Noticed.

Santa Comes In by Coast Guard Boat. Hallmark Noticed.

Chatham is on Hallmark's list of twenty-five Christmas towns — the only one in Massachusetts. Voting closes September 4, and there are two things about how it works you should know before you click.

Arthur Radtke
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The Stake They Left Behind

The Stake They Left Behind

Thirty years ago they dragged two lighthouses back from the edge. One of the estimates they made lands right about now.

Arthur Radtke
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Tip O'Neill Said They Hung Him in Effigy in Truro

Tip O'Neill Said They Hung Him in Effigy in Truro

Sixty-five years ago, much of the Lower and Outer Cape fought like hell over the park it now can't imagine living without.

Arthur Radtke